children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most … datasets studied, and fertility and mortality selection is found significant in the determination of child height in Zambia …This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using … disappears for mothers in "education, training, and library" occupations, revealing that season of birth is a matter of choice … mothers who report to have chosen season of birth is 19% of financial wealth while for those who report not to have chosen it …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

fertility and infant mortality rate. … in female employment opportunities are significantly negatively associated with infant birth weight, but not with the …

importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … long-run outcomes of the infant. Our primary specification involves using mother fixed effects — comparing the outcomes of …